On the Shelf: New items added to Center for Restoration Studies collections, January 2021

In January our colleagues in Technical Services and Cataloging added 119 items to the rare books, University Archives, and Center for Restoration Studies collections.  Many of the new items are bound issues of several mid and late 20th century news-oriented periodicals (Christian Worker, Christian Chronicle, Rocky Mountain Christian, and Christian Journal). These additions either filled in gaps or gave us second copies. We also received a very nice run of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches.  For these reasons the list below represents more items than meets the eye.  As I compile this list each month I don’t include duplicate entries for every item.  For example, there is no need to list ‘Christian Journal‘ eight or nine times. Once will do even though we received multiple bound volumes. The unbound, single issue periodicals continue to be a special focus of cooperation between Special Collections and Technical Services, but in January the monographs and periodicals received their due attention.  And there are more in the pipeline now, so next months’ report should list even more books that fill out our collection.  Also this month are a few new catalog records for some archival collections.  Each archival collection also receives a library catalog entry.  Amanda has prepared updated, or new, findings aids for a couple dozen collections, and we will roll out those announcements regularly, so stay tuned.

I want to mention, again, that institutional newsletters and periodicals remain a collecting focus.  See the lists of recent acquisitions in the October and November 2020 reports.  Newsletters, catalogs and yearbooks from sister schools across the Restoration Movement remain a collecting focus.  If you can help us build out this set of materials, contact Mac at mac.ice@acu.edu.

Abilene Christian College. Prickly Pear, Yearbook of Abilene Christian College, 1952, yearbook, 1952; Abilene, Texas. University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.

Our goal is to build a comprehensive research-level collection of print materials by, for, and about the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.  But beyond assembly and preservation, a collection should be discoverable by those who need the information.  Collecting and preserving is only part of our task; those objects must be described and made available.  Thanks to the close and careful work of our colleagues upstairs, who describe our holdings, these materials are now discoverable. By discoverable I mean a patron can utilize our online catalog (such as by searching by author, or title, or subject) to find these materials.

119 new items…cataloged, shelved, and ready for research: 

Catalog Author Catalog Title
Baxter, Batsell Barrett, Speaking for the Master; a study of public speaking for Christian men
Brown, Alpheus, Alpheus Brown Papers, 1821-1918
Carlson, Alice, Alice Carlson Papers, 1946-1989
Davidson, Clinton, How I discovered the secret of success in the Bible
Disciples of Christ. Historical Society. Research materials
Holowchak, Mark, American Messiah : the surprisingly simple religious views of Thomas Jefferson
Jividen, Jimmy. Glossolalia ?de Díos o del hombre? : un estudío en el fenómeno del hablar en lenguas
McCormick, A.M., A. M. and John McCormick Papers, 1934-1973
McGuffey, William Holmes, McGuffey’s newly revised rhetorical guide, or, Fifth reader of the Eclectic series : containing elegant extracts in prose and poetry, with copious rules and rhetorical exercises
Morgan, Judith A. My name was Elmwood : a story of Nashville
Patterson, James A., James Robinson Graves : staking the boundaries of Baptist identity
Phillips, Thomas W. (Thomas Wharton), The Church of Christ
Poe, Ted, Lloyd Theodore ‘Ted’ Poe Papers, 2005-2018
Prather, Ewell, Ewell Prather Papers, 1767-1976
Saheli, Ammar. Eerie silence : race/racism explored across educational, theological, and justice continuums amidst America and beyond
The Maude Carpenter Children’s Home (Wichita, Kansas) The home journal
Thorp Spring Christian College. The spring board … : the yearbook of Thorp Spring Christian College
Williams, Debbie Jay, The monstrous discourse in the Donald Trump campaign : implications for national discourse
Student directory
Yearbook of American and Canadian churches
The New Covenant scriptures : a translation
The daily Bible : New International Version with devotional insights to guide you through God’s word
I wish someone had told me : equity for women in the church
Christian worker
Christian chronicle
Reporter of direct mail evangelism : a program of saturating every household in any area by mail with the Gospel
Gospel Broadcast : the national Christian weekly
Christian journal
Rocky Mountain Christian
Gospel Broadcast : the national Christian weekly
The Christian appeal
Integrity
Hermitage Church of Christ (Nashville, TN) Records, 1967-2017
Churches of Christ Audio Collection, 1955-2007
Christian Tape Library Collection, circa 1978
New songs of inspiration

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